Mage Leveling Guide – Mage Leveling Build
At this point you’ve probably had a chance to get your Mage started, and if you’ve hit level 10, you may be scratching your head trying to decide on the best Mage leveling build. Thankfully for you, the next chapter of the Mage Leveling Guide is here, and it focuses on choosing the best leveling spec possible for your Mage. In my experience, the best leveling spec for Mages is a Fire build. Here is my personal talent choices for leveling, broken down into blocks of 5 levels.
10-14: Improved Fireball. Lower cast time on your main spell = more damage in a shorter time. Easy choice.
15-19: Ignite. Free Damage over Time from crits? It doesn’t take a rocket surgeon to figure out how this is a beneficial talent to pick up, especially later on when we start boosting our crit to obscene levels.
20-24: Pyroblast, Burning Soul, and Flame Throwing. The gigantic ball of fiery death is kind of a no-brainer. Being able to start your casts from farther away means that a lot of the time, the mob will be dead before it gets a chance to hit you, and in the even that it does, 70% pushback resistance will help you put it down for good.
25-29: Improved Scorch and 2 points in Master of Elements. Again with the crits, and now they give mana back! This is what I call talent synergy!
30-34: Blast Wave, Critical Mass, and finish up Master of Elements. By now there should be a bit of a pattern visible here. More crits, more mileage from your crits, and more things to crit with.
35-39: Fire Power. 10% more damage from 90% of the spells you’ll be casting is pure win.
40-44: Combustion, Pyromaniac, and 1/3 Incineration. Blah blah crits and mana generation. You get it by now. This is the good stuff for leveling.
45-49: Empowered Fire and fill out Incineration. Bigger numbers more frequently, for your pyroclastic amusement.
50-54: Dragon’s Breath, Hot Streak, and 1 point Firestarter. Dragon’s Breath is awesome, Hot Streak is ridiculously powerful when it procs, and Firestarter is decent filler.
55-59: Burnout. Big numbers for the win.
60 plus: Living Bomb is a bit debatable. Some players may like it, others may hate it. Whether or not you choose to grab it, you have to decide whether or not to fill out the rest of the Fire tree or start moving down Arcane.
Either choice is perfectly valid, and is really more dependent on playstyle than anything. Arcane and Frost are both fun trees as well, and some may even prefer them for leveling. In my experience though, Fire is the most efficient leveling build.
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Rocket surgeons eh? Also, thank you for putting this together, I’ve decided to make a new main (have two level 80s) and this mage advice helps tremendously.
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